Well, the travel weary Niners came back from their 2 game roadie, I should say the defense came back from their 2 game roadie. The offense is circling Turlock in a holding pattern. A pattern where no one gets open and no one catches shit. In a game that saw very solid pressure from the base D, the 49ers befuddled and harassed Aaron Rodgers well enough to win this game. Unfortunately, the offense is circling the drain amid more sniping from T Smith, and ineffective blocking. Teams are daring us to beat them through the air, and since we can’t block, we are struggling mightily to even get first downs, let alone touchdowns.
CK had another underwhelming day, and the blocking was it’s usual porous self, but VMcD had a big drop on what would have been an early 1st down, the refs got CK on a call that was ludicrous at best, we had the 1st Packer drive stopped but for a ticky-tack illegal hands, and a missed facemask call on BJ Raji.
Granted, those are little things that decent teams can overcome. But not us. As the game progressed, there was less and less time, more and more pressure, and dwindling confidence offensively as a whole. CK did hit T Smith on a nice deep pass, but that ended in a 4th and 5 play where an all-out blitz was met with the usual slow-developing pass play that had zero chance of working.
This offense is struggling with the same things that they were last year. Poor line play, and no help for the relentless pass rush CK faces all the time. I’m not even going to mention screens, because they won’t work against teams playing us so close to the line. How about a slant? A play that gets the ball out in under 3 seconds?
Either CK isn’t able to do this, or we just don’t have this shit in the playbook. I hate to belabor this point, but the Previous QB suffered the same fate. No quick hitters. No hot-read passes. No slants. I can’t profess to know, but I know Reid throws quick passes, and Young Sir Alex can make that throw. No reason to think CK can’t do the same.
But until the line play improves significantly (shuffle the line already) and the team comes up with a different strategy to slow down the relentless pressure, we will continue down this path.
Forty Niners Forever 
49er receiver was hit early, no call.
That awesome NFL reffing.
Loss of Justin Smith and Aldon Smith has been huge for the defense. An impotent pass rush the entire season, and they won’t blitz to pressure the QB because of weak/rookie cover options in the backfield. Amazing they played as well as they did against Green Bay. The reduction in quality of players on the defense compared to just two years ago cannot be overstated…
Chalk one up for the joke grass.
$1 billion house, $20 landscaping…
Nice catch!
Kappy should just pretend the pocket’s broken down on each play.
Kap needs to workin rolling left
LOL, it looks like he did just that.
Wide open!!!
Why is there no blitzing
Now here is a team that knows how to run the no huddle
Niner defense in 4thQ ahead goes into a coma. Just gives yards away…
And no one can catch Flacco??
GOOOOO PANTHERSSSSS!!!
If the Niners can hang on, they’ll be tied with the Seahawks for last. Some Thanksgiving Day matchup, LOL.
No this Thursday
Oops. October, November, whatever LOL
Nice.win
Despite a decent first half, the Niners took 59:55 at home to just barely eke out a win over a really atrocious team. I don’t see any wins in the next 3 games before the bye…
Yeah, the last 5 weeks are when we clean up. Unfortunately, by then we’ll be 2-9 and any and all wins will just screw up our draft position.
Let’s go ahead and enjoy the win instead of finding reason to hate it. Jesus Christ, they won they fucking game and nobody here has any clue as to what will happen the next 3 weeks. Seattle isn’t playing well at all and Kaepernick has rebounded in tremendous fashion after it looked like he was done. Not much talk of that around here.
THEY WON THE FUCKING GAME.
John, they beat a crap team. Great. Barely. Niners are heading nowhere this season. I’m all for getting the best draft position possible right now, so losses aren’t bad. Call me a doomer, but I’m a realist. Like the Dubs did about 3 seasons ago, they tanked, and got Harrison Barnes. If they had won ONE more game, they lost that pick — a pick that helped them win a championship 3 years later. This Niner season is now all about identifying players to keep, players to dump, and positions of need. As well as identifying whether this coaching staff if worth keeping, or jettisoning en masse…
Go niners beat Seattle
I really like the look kappy has shown the last couple of weeks. We strengthen our OL and figure out a better pass rush we just might have something. Redzone play calling really does suck and that is on coaching for the most part.
And, the upcoming game will give us some answers on where we stand.
Beat Seattle
Goddamn right, beat Seattle.
Snarkk, crap team or no, there are no gimmes in the NFL. The secondary is a disaster right now, yes, but they’re young and learning on the job. Same with the parts of the d-line. The team has put together two good games in a row after looking like a collection of stiffs in the previous 3. That’s a positive and something to build on. Seattle will be tough, they always but they’re floundering right now, band coming up here and putting together another solid game would be another positive, win or lose.
I can’t sit around all season believing there’s no hope for a competitive team this year. They won the game and I’m going to enjoy that.
Here’s where we stand….Niners won today.